'I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Denise Truscello/Getty; Penguin Random House Maria Shriver’s first foray into poetry is ...

From Seamus Heaney’s collected poems and Simon Armitage’s animal spirits, to prizewinners Karen Solie and Vidyan Ravinthiran Many of 2025’s most notable collections have been powered by a spirit of ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

Poetry can be a form of self-care. Poets such as Fariha Róisín, Yrsa Daley-Ward, and even Lana Del Rey have all touched on the healing power of the art form. Over the course of the pandemic, actress ...

Editor’s Note Naomi Shihab Nye was Poetry Editor at the Texas Observer for the past 28 years. A sixth-grader wearing a yellow floral dress waved me down, then sidled up to my car window in Albany, ...

A poem a day keeps the mind at play. That's the beauty of picking up a poetry collection: There's no pressure to read the book cover-to-cover. Readers can take it slow, savoring the verse and emotion.

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are crafting literary works that boldly reflect the fullness of Black queer life ...

This is the second in a series interviewing independent publishers about how they operate. Two Sylvias Press is a poetry publisher run by Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy, which ...